Films byTexts by 1978
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Sarah Maldoror, 1978, 13’

Et les chiens se taisaient is based on recorded excerpts from a play of the same name by the Martinican poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) about the life of a man, a revolutionary, relived by him at the moment of death in the middle of a great collective disaster.

Article NL
13.07.2022
Fernand Deligny 1978
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Sabzian publiceert de komende maanden de eerste Nederlandstalige vertalingen van enkele teksten van Fernand Deligny. Hij schreef verschillende teksten over camereren, een werkwoord dat zich onderscheidt van wat we doorgaans filmen noemen. Via dit neologisme opende hij een uniek perspectief op de camera. Deligny: “Film is nooit enkel het Engelse woord dat voor de geest roept wat in onze taal pellicule heet. Maar dat woord pellicule moest bezet zijn door wat het wou zeggen, en het zijn kleine schilfers van dode huid waar het om gaat; op basis daarvan zegt men filmen en niet pelliculeren.”

Article NL
18.05.2022
Fernand Deligny 1978
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Introductie door

Sabzian publiceert de komende maanden de eerste Nederlandstalige vertalingen van enkele teksten van Fernand Deligny over de notie van het camereren. Deligny’s filmproducties en audiovisuele experimenten gingen samen met geschreven reflecties over de camera. Zijn schriftuur wordt gekenmerkt door vormelijke wildheid en raadselachtigheid, vol woordspelingen, provocaties en boutades. Hij schreef verschillende teksten over camereren, een werkwoord dat zich onderscheidt van wat we doorgaans filmen noemen. Via dit neologisme opende hij een uniek perspectief op de camera. Deligny: “Woorden hebben een geschiedenis. Wat het woordenboek ons zegt over projecteren, eertijds, roept ‘buitengooien’ op, terwijl het woord project, dat dezelfde oorsprong heeft, ‘alles waarmee de mens beoogt de wereld of zichzelf op een bepaalde manier te wijzigen’ voor de geest haalt.”

FILM
Kurt Kren, 1978, 3’

Shot on expired infrared film, Tree Again shows a succession of single frame shots from the same position of a tree between summer and autumn.

 

“There was little likelihood of anything turning out on the film.”

FILM
Oh the Days!
Ahmed El Maanouni, 1978, 80’

Set in a small village in the Moroccan countryside, Alyam, alyam tells a story culled from the lived reality of young men almost forty years ago while still remaining very much of the present day.

Conversation
19.05.2021
Magda Wassef 1978
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Fatma 75’s approach is quite original. The film is based on essays and histories written on the Tunisian feminist movement, using fiction to make its message accessible to the general public. Selma baccar: “As for my experience as a woman director, I think it was very important for me. My relationship with the crew and the actors was excellent. The shooting of Fatma 75 was “all roses”. On the other hand, in order to obtain the necessary funding for the production of the film, I felt a great mistrust from some of the people in charge, although I had a special card up my sleeve: a film about women made by a woman. But the problem of film production in Tunisia is the same for men and women: it’s negative for both of them.”

Manifesto EN
19.05.2021

“Given this situation, the three of us – a filmmaker, a critic and a technician in the Arab cinema – have decided to establish an ‘Assistance Fund’ for the self-expression of the Arab woman in the cinema. A yearly prize of 10,000 ff (about $2500) will be awarded to the best script for a short film from those proposals submitted by Arab women undertaking their first film.”

Article EN
28.04.2021
Magda Wassef 1978
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Certainly, The Hour of Liberation has arrived. But what kind of liberation is it? Heiny Srour not only understands it in the political sense of the term, but in a more absolute sense. The liberation of Arab women is at the heart of this film, which has, unfortunately, hardly been screened in our countries. The difficulties encountered during and after the shoot of the film need to be addressed. They give you an idea of what a woman has to face when she decides not to give in and to push her project to the limit...

Conversation EN
7.04.2021

“Each time I made a film, it was in a given political period; each time I had a political objective, my films couldn’t just be without orientation. That’s not sentimentality. Through a form of sensibility, a political problem emerges. The destruction of Beirut, the children fighting, it means something. I figured this way of showing things could touch people and have a real political impact. People are fed up with the talking. On television, for example, one day they show a representative of the left, the next a representative of the right. Every day, they agree with someone else, and they end up forgetting who’s right or wrong!”

Article EN
31.03.2021

So your film is more a film about space than about women?

Yes, because saying that my film is a film about women doesn’t mean anything. I’ll always make these films... Female bodies, women are my subject. Like a sculptor somehow, who uses a certain material, while another sculptor will use another material. That should mean something, shouldn’t it? I think that’s what the Cinémathèque audience couldn’t stand; I’ve removed men from my film. But what can I say, except that I’ve just shown what exists in reality. I intentionally separated the sexes in the image, as in reality. The intention is feminist, and why not? I wanted to show the number one problem of Algerian women, which is the right to space. Because I was able to verify that the more space the women had, the firmer they stood.

FILM
Empire of Passion
Nagisa Ôshima, 1978, 105’

A married woman murders her husband together with her lover and dumps his body in a well. Gradually, their downfall begins when, after a while, the husband’s spirit returns.

 

Conversation FR
1.07.2020

Dans Le miroir, je traite pour la première fois un sujet qui raconte littéralement une histoire vécue. Or, ça fait peur d’évoquer des sensations personnelles qui seront ensuite jugées au tribunal du spectateur. Cela correspond au moment où l'onse force à parler. A-t-on raison en faisant du spectateur le voyeur de ses problèmes personnels ? Est-il certain qu'une histoire de ce type puisse exprimer quelque chose de plus général ?

FILM
Bill Douglas, 1978, 71’

Jamie leaves the children’s home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor’s shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship releases Jamie from self-pity.

 

FILM
Marguerite Duras, 1978, 14’

From the end of a night to dawn. An uninterrupted traveling shot. From Bastille to the Champs-Elysees, by way of the Boulevard des Italiens, Avenue de l'Opera, and Rue de Rivoli, a depopulated Paris offers itself to Marguerite Duras' mysterious and profound voice.

 

FILM
Jan Decorte, 1978, 90’

Jan Decorte’s second feature is a film adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. At the centre of the play by the Norwegian playwright are the Tesmans, who have just returned from a long honeymoon.

FILM
Maurice Pialat, 1978, 86’

Maurice Pialat: This isn’t cinéma-vérité. That doesn’t exist. Everything is always reconstituted. The only truth of the cinema is what’s filmed with sincerity; there’s authenticity there.

FILM
Chantal Akerman, 1978, 127’

Anna, an accomplished filmmaker makes her way through a series of anonymous European cities to promote her latest movie. She meets strangers and lovers and then visits her mother in Brussels. Throughout, people make personal revelations to her, and Anna listens with little affect.

Article NL FR EN
16.11.2016

Marguerite Duras’ Les mains négatives premiered in 1978. Images of a ride through Paris apace with the phrases of Amy Flammers’ violin, entwined with Duras’ own voice. Transcribed, the voice-over reads like a poem.

Article NL FR EN
29.09.2016

In 1978 ging Les mains négatives van Marguerite Duras in première. Over de beelden van een autorit door Parijs klinken muzikale frases van Amy Flammers viool, vervlochten met de stem van Duras. De transcriptie van de voice-over laat zich lezen als een gedicht.

Article NL FR EN
29.09.2016

Les mains négatives, un court-métrage de Marguerite Duras, sort en 1978. Un long travelling à travers Paris au petit matin se double d’une bande son où s’enchevêtrent les phrases musicales du violon d’Amy Flammers et la voix de Marguerite Duras récitant un texte dont la transcription se lit comme un poème.

Conversation NL FR
28.10.2013

« Mais je dis aussi : « Chaque chose dans un film est une forme ». Par là, je voulais m’en prendre aux malentendus habituels sur le documentaire. Ce n’est pas du documentaire, ce n’est pas du vrai non plus: c’est une forme, de la matière formée et transportée, de la fiction. Et puis, je reprends et je dis : « quand même, c’est quelqu’un avec qui j’ai vécu : au revoir ! ». »